Wine Descriptors: The Translators Are Almost Always Wrong
You’re reading this now because, as with one other post, here, last week, this little gremlin popped up AGAIN, yesterday, looking for all the world like it was brand new.
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“Wine Tasting is Bullshit”: A Stake in the Heart of a Moronic Myth
If you want advice on your cholesterol level, do you go to a guy who repairs lawnmowers? You want advice about wine, go to somebody who knows wine.
In Praise of D2: My Visit to DeLille
DeLille D2 was originally intended to be a second label…Instead, it has become a true Pacific Northwest and, indeed, an American icon.
Talkin’ Tastes, Prices, Quality, and Bullshit: A Pre-Christmas Primer
Unless you Trust Yourself, you’re always going to be a little disappointed with wine, your beer, that special whiskey, and never really understand why.
Walla Walla Vintners: A Sangio, a Franc, and a New Era
I’m not going to suggest that Walla Walla Vintners is better than the original. I am going to say that, in my opinion, it is at least as good as the original…and that is Saying Something.
Wee Drams 1: SD Beer Week, Booker’s, Knob Creek, Fort George(!), and More
Just a few of the more interesting events, products, and tidbits from the quasi-rational world of adult beverages.
The Good, the Bad, and The Future: Why Crazy Matters
We have to embrace the Crazy. We have to have our prissy assumptions and preconceptions and even our tastes offended, abused, and kicked in the nuts. It’s how we evolve.
The Hess Collection and Select Cabernets: The Outer Limits of Value
You tasted Hess wines 20 years ago and see them and think, “Yeah, been there, done that”? Trust me on this: You do NOT know Hess.
